Top 100 Quotes About Angles
#1. The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.
W. H. Auden
#2. Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.
Marc Ostrofsky
#3. We are all angles, because everyone of us is judged by someone looking at us from a certain angle.
Jillian Kelly
#4. See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
Evan Dando
#5. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.
Don DeLillo
#6. It's up to us to remember how multifaceted we are and to celebrate all those odd little angles we have which make us who we are.
Viola Shipman
#7. Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.
Henry Cavill
#8. Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.
Mason Cooley
#9. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges
#10. The more angles I see, the more confused I get.
Phil Simms
#11. Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
A.S.J. Tessimond
#12. Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
Steve Breen
#13. I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
Tom Riley
#15. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret
that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#16. There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#17. I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.
Ellen Von Unwerth
#18. American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in the world? Women should have curves, not angles ... One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful ... Eat. Be happy to have curves. A presence.
Beth Fantaskey
#19. You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.
Benjamin Franklin
#20. One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
Jo Walton
#21. He was horrible and fascinating all at once, like a scorpion prepared to strike, all angles and sharp lines and menace.
Kelly Creagh
#22. Right Angles Make Right Thinkers.
A slogan from Biocube Escape
Irene Groot
#23. I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
M. Night Shyamalan
#24. People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.
Jim Gaffigan
#25. Digital also had this evolution that came out of post-production. And George Lucas did it because he wanted to make a big movie with special effects. Sort of the opposite of what you'd think is an indie film. So it's coming from both these angles.
Christopher Kenneally
#27. I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.
Summer Glau
#28. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;
Saul D. Alinsky
#29. Pictures are much harder to do than the theater ... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
Sydney Greenstreet
#30. It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite
sides respectively.
Archimedes
#31. With 'Captain America,' you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are just a million angles and a million set-ups, and it's tedious.
Chris Evans
#32. His wild white hair and beard projected from all angles of his face, making him look like a dandelion gone to seed.
Kaza Kingsley
#33. I was pretty well through with the subject. At one time or another I had probably considered it from most of its various angles, including the one that certain injuries or imperfections are a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the person possessing them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#34. That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.
Euclid
#35. Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
Bill Nye
#36. I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
Alex Flinn
#37. It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren't that many millions of people in all of Sweden.
Gustavo Dudamel
#38. The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.
Jeff Yass
#39. I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.
Brie Larson
#40. Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.
Kumail Nanjiani
#42. A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.
Hans Wegner
#43. If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
Vidal Sassoon
#44. You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
Mae West
#45. I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney
#46. There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.
Brian Ross
#47. Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.
Casey Neistat
#48. Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it.
N. Scott Momaday
#49. This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it.
Karen Russell
#50. His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
David Levithan
#51. No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.
Michael Arad
#52. It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.
Kevin Brooks
#53. she already knew this would be one of her most revisited memories, one she'd want to examine from all angles and one whose afterglow she'd want to enjoy for a long time to come. They
M.A. Larson
#54. I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
Deborah Norville
#55. Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.
Daniel Woodrell
#56. His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.
Jennifer Harrison
#57. There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
Dana Schutz
#58. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
Prince Charles
#59. There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
John Archibald Wheeler
#60. The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.
David McCord
#61. I had played all my angles, tossed my heart with a wet rattling thump onto her snare drum, I Love You I Love You I Love You.
Michelle Tea
#62. Without solitude true happiness was impossible. The fallen angel was faithless to God probably only because he longed for solitude, which angles knew not.
Anton Chekhov
#63. Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
Jet Li
#64. Could it be that different political views, different religions and even scientific theories had been looking at our reality from different angles? If so, we should not accept or prefer one over the other, but instead we must aim to draw the best out of each view.
Ardiana Bani Cohn
#65. I like the idea of people getting to know you from different angles and then realizing "That guy is also that guy!" "Oh, he does that!" I really like having a number of different ways to reach people.
Nick Kroll
#66. Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking when it was short, sticking straight up or out at awkward angles; at least when it was long it almost obeyed gravity.
Penny Reid
#67. Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
Ani DiFranco
#68. I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.
Charlie Chaplin
#69. Angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead. Even from deep inside the kitchen, Luke could tell the trees were missing because everything was brighter, more open. Scarier.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#70. The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.
Greg Keyes
#71. San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world ... I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers ... You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
Ang Lee
#72. You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
Daniel Wu
#73. I'm really good with problems. I can solve a differential equation in my head. I chew through trig angles like candy. I know this, and it just makes it worse. Because I don't know how to solve this one.
Kekla Magoon
#74. Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.
Billy Magnussen
#75. I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
Nelson Mandela
#76. I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
Alton Brown
#77. Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.
Nick Nolte
#78. I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
Laura Haddock
#79. You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
Marjane Satrapi
#80. I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
Norah Jones
#81. What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.
Robert Sheehan
#82. Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Chris Hardwick
#83. I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.
Kate Bush
#84. The English language is a rich verbal tapestry woven together from the tongues of the Greeks, the Latins, the Angles, the Klaxtons, the Celtics, and many more other ancient peoples, all of whom had severe drinking problems." Let
Steven Pinker
#85. A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Matthew Barney
#86. How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees ...
Taylor Mali
#87. I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.
Alex Pettyfer
#88. If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
Lawrence Hargrave
#89. Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.
Michael Spiller
#90. I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.
Lana Del Rey
#91. If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.
Steve Sabol
#92. One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
Dave Gibbons
#93. I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.
Elizabeth Bishop
#94. Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
Stephen Hawking
#95. Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
Oscar Niemeyer
#96. Since the Bible has quite a lot to say about truth - and since it also has plenty to say about how particular individuals relate to that truth - it has become easy to imagine that its claims can and should be reduced to particular, and highly relative and situational, angles of vision.
N. T. Wright
#97. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots
prostitute, housewife, saint
like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
Janet Fitch
#98. What's important to me is offering perspectives into worlds that people don't often get to see. Do you know what I mean? From angles they don't often get to see.
Ryan Coogler
#99. Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
Peter Diamandis
#100. The past is perpetually in play, always malleable, ever salvageable. Did any of this story happen as I said it did? The telling of a tale puts a prism to it from which incalculable new angles rainbow forth. You made this as real as I; remember it however you'd like.
Daniel Kraus
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